I was out of town last week. I’ll try and catch up on a number of subjects this week.

One of the reasons I was out of town was that I was invited by AWS to present at their StartUp event in Boston.

A copy of the presentation may be seen on Slideshare.net (or just click on the image). It was a great event, and I enjoyed sharing the stage with the talented people from AideRSS, Praxeon, and Geezeo. It was good to interact with others who are building (and bootstrapping) new web services using AWS.

I truly believe that utility computing is going to change the way businesses get started and (eventually) operate. However, we are going to have to build systems that are organic in how they handle resources, i.e. scale up and down as a function of load. In addition, these systems need to be self-healing by automatically addressing processor and storage outages.

The importance of self-healing will be evident in the next post.

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